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Quotes About Betray

But passion most dissembles, yet betrays, Even by its darkness; as the blackest sky Foretells the heaviest tempest.
~ Joseph Conrad
Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.
~ William Hazlitt
Let all those in government be warned: They cannot order people to pay for the murder of babies, and betray God Himself, without horrific consequences.
~ Randall Terry
Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.
~ Elie Wiesel
I can't lie... My face always gives me away. I'm also pathetically bad at poker!
~ Cat Deeley
I dream of a moment when, without my asking, my actions will betray completely this part of me that asks for nothing
~ Yukio Mishima
The beauty of performance for me is finding details with which to betray character.
~ Jefferson Mays
More than ever at that instant did she long for speech - speech that would conceal and protect where dangerous silence might betray.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Our love for the Founders leads us to abandon, and even to betray, the very principles they fought for.
~ H. W. Brands
Actors betray. Technicians don't. Movies are made by technicians.
~ Pooja Bhatt
If a spiritual being is naive to the lower aspects of the world, they usually are killed or die young. Did Jesus really know which of the twelve would betray him? I doubt it.
~ Frederick Lenz
We strive for heights bit our natures betray us, Chamcha thought; clowns in search of crowns. The bitterness overcame him
~ Salman Rushdie
To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray the historical role Quebec has always played in Confederation, and to undermine the legitimacy of their pride and ambitions.
~ Kim Campbell
We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience is to betray it.
~ Elie Wiesel
All true feeling is in reality untranslatable. To express it is to betray it. But to translate it is to dissimulate it.
~ Antonin Artaud
Several times during the last three years I have taken up my pen to write to you, but always I feared lest your affectionate regard for me should tempt you to some indiscretion which would betray my secret.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Controlar los verdaderos sentimientos y hacer lo mismo que hicieran los demás era una reacción natural. Pero durante un par de segundos, sus ojos podían haberío delatado.
~ George Orwell
But he was not like Walter, who might take his pleasure where he chose it. His pleasure had turned, at the last, to a kind of grief; and his love was a love so fierce and so secret it must be satisfied, with a stranger, in a reeking court like this. I knew about that kind of love. I knew how it was to bare your palpitating heart, and be fearful as you did so that the beats should come too loudly, and betray you.
~ Sarah Waters
All along this path I tread, my heart betrays my weary head, with nothing but my love to save, from the cradle to the grave.
~ Eric Clapton
When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom — freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse.
~ Eric Hoffer
It's curious that the Latin root of the Middle English word for tradition, tradere, means not only to "impart" and "give over," but also to "betray.
~ Sheila Black
A good heart will, at all times, betray the best head in the world.
~ Henry Fielding
I find comfort in the fact that the longer I'm in politics the less nourishing popularity becomes, that a striving for power and rank and fame seems to betray a poverty of ambition, and that I am answerable mainly to the steady gaze of my own conscience.
~ Barack Obama
Was there a turn, a change in the atmosphere? To single out a particular moment is to distort the record, for it suggests a clear history of cause and effect that can only betray our sense of what really happened.
~ Steven Millhauser